-By Warner Todd Huston
The welfare state has grown too large to support any longer, says the Dutch King, Willem-Alexander. The King now says that the Dutch instead need to encourage a “participation society.”
In an address to his country, the King insisted that their welfare state programs are “unsustainable in their current form.”
In his “new” society, the King said, people would be responsible for themselves and their own futures and families and should expect less help from the government.
This speech, especially if the Dutch government follows this up with actions–and that is already happening–marks a very key turning point in the socialist European welfare state mentality. As more countries begin to realize that they will be forced to follow the example of the Dutch King, the welfare state will begin a long road to being pared back, pruned, cut, and chopped to a more logical, manageable size.
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Dutch King: Our Welfare State is Dead”